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whitepaper Virtual Compute Corporation uses the Sun Grid Compute Utility to handle work from its energy industry customers that exceeds the capacity of its own IT infrastructure. The Sun Grid gives Virtual Compute Corporation the ability to quickly and...
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated processing for a core genetic sequencing application from a HP AlphaServer Tru64 platform to a high-performance computing grid infrastructure using Sun Fire x64 servers...
[05 May 2008]
whitepaper A Sun Grid Rack System for High Performance Computing, comprised of 400 Sun Fire X2100 servers, was integrated by the Sun Customer Ready Systems program. One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical...
[03 May 2008]
whitepaper One important challenge facing grid computing is efficient parallel I/O for data-intensive grid applications. Grid applications use high-speed networks to logically assemble collections of resources such as scientific instruments, supercomputers...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Today it is virtually impossible to discuss high performance or scientific computing of any sort without reference to grid technologies. Grid computing has emerged as a dominant, pervasive metaphor in the past decade.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper SAGE (SAIC Adaptive Grid Eulerian) is a well-known hydrodynamics application in the US Department of Energy's national laboratory community, and the application has been ported to several platforms over the years.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Grid computing provides key infrastructure for distributed problem solving in dynamic virtual organizations. This paper describes the initial work in capturing knowledge and heuristics about how to select application components and computing...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper SABUL is designed for reliability, high performance, fairness and stability. This paper describes SABUL, an application-level data transfer protocol for data-intensive applications over high bandwidth-delay product networks.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Taobao.com implemented a reliable, scalable, and high performing information technology architecture using a range of Oracle grid computing products and satisfied scalability requirements with four-node server cluster, with the option of expanding...
[24 Mar 2008]
whitepaper A Grid computer is a hardware and software system that integrates a collection of distributed system components (e.g.computer systems, storage, etc.making them appear to the user as a single, large "virtualized" computing system.
[07 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The University tested migration of CitySpace to Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters-based grid computing environment, finding it capable of scaling for a 100% increase in traffic during peak exam periods without loss of performance.
[18 Dec 2007]
whitepaper The company developed customized script routines, Open Source grid engines and stripped-down Linux kernels to manage workflow and rendering in the HPC cluster. To handle the increasing demands, Crest developed a High-Performance Computing (HPC...
[30 Oct 2007]
Case Study Ashton said the synchrotron produces 80Mb of data per second when running at its peak, meaning grid computing is sometimes required to cope with the data. Scientists at the facility are using an IBM supercomputer - developed and maintained by high...
[18 Sep 2007]
whitepaper Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers.
[11 Sep 2007]
whitepaper New High-Performance Computing (HPC) offerings from Microsoft and its partners are ideally suited for scaling out compute-intensive components of an SOA. Enterprise architects in financial services are looking to Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA...
[04 Jul 2007]
whitepaper The goal of the Grid Application Development Software (GrADS) Project is to simplify distributed heterogeneous computing in the same way that the World Wide Web simplified information sharing over the Internet.
[15 Jun 2007]
whitepaper International Data Corporation (IDC) projects that the aggregate grid computing market is expected to exceed $12 billion in revenue by 2007 across High-Performance Computing (HPC) technical markets and commercially viable enterprises.
[05 Jun 2007]
whitepaper In addition to the cost advantages that this flexibility can afford, Linux also provides a solid and scalable infrastructure designed to support movements to grid computing and e-business on demand. Linux is a reliable, security-rich and scalable...
[18 May 2007]
whitepaper These configurations focus on delivering computing power with high space density, in a cluster or grid architecture. The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster with Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 servers is optimized for High-Performance Computing (HPC...
[11 May 2007]
News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, added: "We are looking to leverage virtualisation...
[04 May 2007]
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